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Topic: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux) - page 945. (Read 6590565 times)

hero member
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Someone please help! When I try to mine with RX480, the miner crashes. A have 3 card - 2x270X and 1xRX480. If i try to mine with only 270X, there is no problem, but if I try to mine with all 3 or just with the polaris - the miner crashes. I post last rows from log file:

01:40:59:271   d20   Total cards: 3
01:40:59:287   d20   Initializing...

01:40:59:303   d20   GPU #0 recognized as Radeon RX 480
01:40:59:303   d20   GPU #1 recognized as Radeon 270/270X
01:40:59:318   d20   GPU #2 recognized as Radeon 270/270X
01:40:59:318   d20   POOL/SOLO version
01:40:59:318   d20   b167
01:40:59:350   d20   start building OpenCL program...

I don't know what happened, I was mining with RX480 for 1 day, but then I try some intensity changes and after all I cannot mine with RX480 anymore...

Claymore, please help. I reinstall Windows and no change, still can't mine. ;(

If it fails on "start building OpenCL program" - something is wrong with OpenCL, i.e. with drivers.
Also I have the exact same problem with this guy. However, my rig would sometimes work and sometimes don't. Can't be the driver. Unless I change the driver in between without realizing it.

Just in case it's really the driver. Which driver you recommend?

Many recommend 16.9.2

You yourself said that we should use 15.2

Which one you think is best now?

sr. member
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Any owner of the XFX 470 1236 MHz, how good is the performance on Eth only?

You would want to drop the Core to ~1150 and raise the Memory to a minimum of 1750 (even 1950-200 if it's stable) and then you should get at least 22 Mh/s, perhaps even 24 depending on the card. All GPUs may be a little different, so those are just approximate figures. --- If you modify the bios you can potentially hit up to 30 Mh/s, but start out with the simpler settings at first. Smiley

I jumped right in at the deep end. Had all my bioses flashed by the fourth day.  It was very stressful though because of the potential damage to the cards.
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Any owner of the XFX 470 1236 MHz, how good is the performance on Eth only?

You would want to drop the Core to ~1150 and raise the Memory to a minimum of 1750 (even 1950-200 if it's stable) and then you should get at least 22 Mh/s, perhaps even 24 depending on the card. All GPUs may be a little different, so those are just approximate figures. --- If you modify the bios you can potentially hit up to 30 Mh/s, but start out with the simpler settings at first. Smiley
well I am looking to buy one but I am not sure if all can do 30Mh/s, cna do even do 30 with dual mining?
sr. member
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Any owner of the XFX 470 1236 MHz, how good is the performance on Eth only?

You would want to drop the Core to ~1150 and raise the Memory to a minimum of 1750 (even 1950-200 if it's stable) and then you should get at least 22 Mh/s, perhaps even 24 depending on the card. All GPUs may be a little different, so those are just approximate figures. --- If you modify the bios you can potentially hit up to 30 Mh/s, but start out with the simpler settings at first. Smiley
legendary
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sr. member
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I have my claymore configured to dual mine both decred (on suprnova pool) and Ethereum.   For a couple of months it has been fine but now decred shares are all being rejected but all ethereum shares are OK.  Is it a problem with the pool or my rig?

My batch file hasn't changed in any way.
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Any owner of the XFX 470 1236 MHz, how good is the performance on Eth only?
donator
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Miners developer
Ok, I'll implement it in next update.
legendary
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@Claymore: Feature request  Grin
Can you please consider the possibility of introducing some kind of pool management mechanism? Allowing us to move to one of the failover pools without having to restart the miner or change the config file?
Right now, dcr.suprnova is not displaying my hashrate so I would like to temporarily move to my failover DCR pool. But I can only do that by restarting the miner and changing the config files.
Not a practical solution, right?
Can you please give it some thought?
Thanks!

From Readme, "FAILOVER" section:
....
You can reload "epools.txt" and "dpools.txt" files in runtime by pressing "r" key.
....
Also check my answer a bit above: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18614680

Thank you for the prompt replay. I'm familiar with that feature and I've been using it. I was asking for a way to cycle through the available pools without the need to change the contents of the .txt files.

Hmm... How do you think it must look like?

Add a shortcut key that will disconnect from the main pool, switching to the next one in the epools.txt. And a similar procedure for the dpools.txt...

As an alternative, more complicated but way more powerful, you can add something like the sgminer solution for pool management where you can add a parameter to the config file stating if you want load balance, failover, round robin... and you can change this in runtime.

Anyway, you are the developer, you know better. I just think it would be a nice addition to this wonderful miner (and to all your other miners!)

Thanks!
hero member
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@Claymore: Feature request  Grin
Can you please consider the possibility of introducing some kind of pool management mechanism? Allowing us to move to one of the failover pools without having to restart the miner or change the config file?
Right now, dcr.suprnova is not displaying my hashrate so I would like to temporarily move to my failover DCR pool. But I can only do that by restarting the miner and changing the config files.
Not a practical solution, right?
Can you please give it some thought?
Thanks!

From Readme, "FAILOVER" section:
....
You can reload "epools.txt" and "dpools.txt" files in runtime by pressing "r" key.
....
Also check my answer a bit above: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18614680

Thank you for the prompt replay. I'm familiar with that feature and I've been using it. I was asking for a way to cycle through the available pools without the need to change the contents of the .txt files.

Hmm... How do you think it must look like?
I guess I am still not understanding. I can reload the failover pools, but how do I manually switch to another pool without the first pool failing? For example in sgminer I can hit "p" to list the pools loaded by the .conf, then hit "s" to switch pools, it will ask me for the pool number from the list of loaded pools........let's say I'm on pool 1 and want to start mining on pool 7 ......in sgminer I would type p s 7 enter, and then spacebar or any other key to get out of the "p" menu.

How can I accomplish the same thing in your miner?
donator
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@Claymore: Feature request  Grin
Can you please consider the possibility of introducing some kind of pool management mechanism? Allowing us to move to one of the failover pools without having to restart the miner or change the config file?
Right now, dcr.suprnova is not displaying my hashrate so I would like to temporarily move to my failover DCR pool. But I can only do that by restarting the miner and changing the config files.
Not a practical solution, right?
Can you please give it some thought?
Thanks!

From Readme, "FAILOVER" section:
....
You can reload "epools.txt" and "dpools.txt" files in runtime by pressing "r" key.
....
Also check my answer a bit above: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18614680

Thank you for the prompt replay. I'm familiar with that feature and I've been using it. I was asking for a way to cycle through the available pools without the need to change the contents of the .txt files.

Hmm... How do you think it must look like?
legendary
Activity: 1564
Merit: 1027
@Claymore: Feature request  Grin
Can you please consider the possibility of introducing some kind of pool management mechanism? Allowing us to move to one of the failover pools without having to restart the miner or change the config file?
Right now, dcr.suprnova is not displaying my hashrate so I would like to temporarily move to my failover DCR pool. But I can only do that by restarting the miner and changing the config files.
Not a practical solution, right?
Can you please give it some thought?
Thanks!

From Readme, "FAILOVER" section:
....
You can reload "epools.txt" and "dpools.txt" files in runtime by pressing "r" key.
....
Also check my answer a bit above: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18614680

Thank you for the prompt replay. I'm familiar with that feature and I've been using it. I was asking for a way to cycle through the available pools without the need to change the contents of the .txt files.
sr. member
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Please recommend a good pool for expanse mining. I've tried suprnova but reported hashrate from claymore v9.1 and the one listed on pool was not similar. The gap was huge after 2 hours testing. Is this normal?
donator
Activity: 1610
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Miners developer
@Claymore: Feature request  Grin
Can you please consider the possibility of introducing some kind of pool management mechanism? Allowing us to move to one of the failover pools without having to restart the miner or change the config file?
Right now, dcr.suprnova is not displaying my hashrate so I would like to temporarily move to my failover DCR pool. But I can only do that by restarting the miner and changing the config files.
Not a practical solution, right?
Can you please give it some thought?
Thanks!

From Readme, "FAILOVER" section:
....
You can reload "epools.txt" and "dpools.txt" files in runtime by pressing "r" key.
....
Also check my answer a bit above: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18614680
legendary
Activity: 1564
Merit: 1027
@Claymore: Feature request  Grin

Can you please consider the possibility of introducing some kind of pool management mechanism? Allowing us to move to one of the failover pools without having to restart the miner or change the config file?

Right now, dcr.suprnova is not displaying my hashrate so I would like to temporarily move to my failover DCR pool. But I can only do that by restarting the miner and changing the config files.

Not a practical solution, right?

Can you please give it some thought?

Thanks!
sr. member
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Merit: 262
the v9.* performance looks a bit weird... I'm still trying to figure out what's going on.
on my modded 470s with dcri 24 I'm getting a nice boost of ~50%(vs dcri=32 on 8.*) for DCR and a minimal fluctuations of the reported rate on ETH (occasional 1-2% drops)
however at the pool it's more like 7-15% down the usual (and this is on top of the "regular" loss of 3-5%)
my regular pool is ethermine and it looks like v9.* somehow constantly underperforms - for the past few days my effective hash never went above the reported rate.
The new normal for the effective hash now is at around 15% below the reported ... and I don't like this a bit.

Will leave it to run for a while more and will see how it goes...

....and the conclusion: v9.1 is doing just fine (if you move workers around/rename ethermine stats go crazy for a long while)

donator
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Miners developer
@Claymore Can you implement it to where we can change pools without restarting the miner? I can do this in other miners by using a .conf, but haven't seen how to do it with your miners.....unless I have just missed how to do it.

You can apply new epools.txt via Remote Manager (EthMan). Or you can press "R" in miner to reload epools.txt.

sometimes the miner hangs but not totally
if you press S key it shows stat and then says that it is really hanging and then restarts itself

why this happens and why the miner does not detect such kind of hanging(tough it's still running because it can process user input) and does not restart without user actions

Try this from FAQ (first post):

- Miner freezes if I put cursor to its window in Windows 10 until any key is pressed. Sometimes miner freezes randomly until any key is pressed.
  You should make some changes in Windows:
  https://superuser.com/questions/555160/windows-command-prompt-freezing-on-focus
  https://superuser.com/questions/419717/windows-command-prompt-freezing-randomly?rq=1
  https://superuser.com/questions/1051821/command-prompt-random-pause?rq=1
copper member
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sometimes the miner hangs but not totally
if you press S key it shows stat and then says that it is really hanging and then restarts itself

why this happens and why the miner does not detect such kind of hanging(tough it's still running because it can process user input) and does not restart without user actions
hero member
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@Claymore Can you implement it to where we can change pools without restarting the miner? I can do this in other miners by using a .conf, but haven't seen how to do it with your miners.....unless I have just missed how to do it.
sr. member
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i would highly suggest against opening port 3333 on your router and using an app like this to control your miners.. doing so would let anyone with your ip address change settings..

this app seems to be mostly designed to be used on your home network when you are connected with wifi.


1) read-only mode is good enough for monitoring
2) https://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html
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